Nine months ago, the Prince William County School Board considered updating the PWCS Nondiscrimination Policy, otherwise known as 060. The update in question would have added four words to the policy: “gender identity, sexual orientation” and would have made clear that Prince William County Schools do not tolerate discrimination against anyone on these bases.

“During the 2015 election, I don’t remember any candidate for the school board stating that current class sizes were appropriate or that portable classrooms were an acceptable learning facility. Quite the contrary, all current school board members ran on a platform of reducing class sizes. Yet a year after the current board took office, we don’t see them working to revise or accelerate the Capital Improvement Plan to fulfill that promise and we have yet to see a comprehensive strategy against which we, the voters, can measure progress.”

With the vote on the amendment to add LGBT people to the non-discrimination policy on the agenda for Prince William School Board, this Wednesday night, residents are split on whether to delay or move ahead.

Don Shaw announced Friday he was withdrawing his name for consideration as a temporary replacement for Brentsville District School Board member Gil Trenum after a member of the School Board leaked his personal information to a conservative blog.

The Prince William School Board expects to soon send a letter to the Attorney General, asking for clarification on the process of temporarily replacing the Brentsville Representative Gil Trenum, who will be deployed to Africa in August.

The upcoming election for Delegate in Virginia’s 13th district offers voters in Prince William County the opportunity to deliver to Richmond a new representative with unique qualifications and experiences.